Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Heritage Talking - a Semiotic Analysis of a Major Railway Museum
- In
- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, Hobart, Tasmania, 1992, pp. 55-60
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0858255677
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.424458492474961
- Abstract
Sites recording engineering heritage are commonly presented as museums. Many museums act as physical attractions, resourcing the tourist industry. Messages are constructed by the museum, passed to, and read by their visitors. The paper uses semiotics to analyse the communication event between museum and visitor. It is suggested that the messages passed, have much broader meaning than the mere presentation and recording of engineering heritage. The message is elevated from the level of language to that of myth, by the place that what the museum signifies has in modern popular culture. The Zig Zag Railway in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is used as a case study.
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- Sixth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, 1992, Hobart 5-7 October 1992: Preprints of Papers (Hobart, Tasmania: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Tasmania Division, 1992), 140 pp. https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.0858255677. Details